Florida Senate - 2005                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for CS for SB's 1872 & 2378
                        Barcode 515306
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11  Senator Bullard moved the following amendment:
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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
14         On page 20, line 10, delete that line
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17         Section 7.  It is the intent of the Legislature to
18  reduce the number of arrests for people with serious mental
19  illnesses and reduce the use of force-related injuries
20  involving people with serious mental illnesses. Therefore, the
21  Department of Law Enforcement is authorized to adopt the
22  Crisis Intervention Team (C.I.T.) program as a pilot program
23  to provide lessons for its statewide use by other law
24  enforcement agencies.
25         Section 8.  The Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health
26  Institute at the University of South Florida shall conduct a
27  study of the Crisis Intervention Team (C.I.T.) program being
28  used by the members of the Florida C.I.T. Coalition, which is
29  a coalition of several counties involving law enforcement
30  agencies, community providers, and families and consumers
31  developing the core standards for a consistent C.I.T. program
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Florida Senate - 2005 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for CS for SB's 1872 & 2378 Barcode 515306 1 for the state. The purpose of the study is to look at the 2 effectiveness of the C.I.T. program related to a reduction in 3 arrests for people with serious mental illnesses as well as an 4 increase in jail diversion activities, a reduction in the use 5 of force-related injuries, and identification of those core 6 elements of the C.I.T. program that make it an effective 7 police response. The institute, in conjunction with the 8 Florida C.I.T. Coalition, shall submit a report of the 9 findings of its study, which shall include recommendations as 10 to whether the C.I.T. program should be adopted by all law 11 enforcement agencies as a best practice, recommendations as to 12 the resources necessary to assist communities in adopting the 13 C.I.T. program, and recommendations as to other training needs 14 for law enforcement agencies related to people with serious 15 mental illnesses, to the Legislature and the Department of Law 16 Enforcement by July 1, 2006. 17 Section 9. The Department of Law Enforcement is 18 authorized to use up to $175,000 to contract with the Louis de 19 la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute to implement sections 20 7 and 8 of this act. 21 Section 10. Except for sections 7, 8, and 9 of this 22 act and this section, which shall take effect upon becoming a 23 law, this act shall take effect July 1, 2005. 24 25 26 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 27 And the title is amended as follows: 28 On page 1, lines 2-25, delete those lines 29 30 and insert: 31 An act relating to health; providing 2 4:31 PM 04/26/05 s1872c2c-39-c3g
Florida Senate - 2005 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for CS for SB's 1872 & 2378 Barcode 515306 1 legislative intent; amending s. 20.435, F.S.; 2 authorizing use of funds in the Biomedical 3 Research Trust Fund administered by the 4 Department of Health for the purposes of the 5 Florida Center for Universal Research to 6 Eradicate Disease; amending s. 561.121, F.S.; 7 redistributing certain funds collected from 8 taxes on alcoholic beverages; amending s. 9 381.855, F.S.; revising the purpose of the 10 Florida Center for Universal Research to 11 Eradicate Disease; requiring the center to 12 provide grants for cancer research and 13 Alzheimer's disease research; revising 14 membership of the center's advisory council; 15 providing procedures for the awarding of grants 16 for cancer research and Alzheimer's disease 17 research; amending s. 381.921, F.S.; revising a 18 goal of the Florida Cancer Council; amending s. 19 1004.445, F.S.; renaming the Johnnie B. Byrd, 20 Sr., Alzheimer's Center and Research Institute 21 as the "Ronald Reagan Alzheimer's Center and 22 Research Institute"; providing for adoption of 23 the Crisis Intervention Team program as a pilot 24 program; directing the Louis de la Parte 25 Florida Mental Health Institute at the 26 University of South Florida to conduct a study 27 of the Crisis Intervention Team (C.I.T.) 28 program; providing the purpose of the study; 29 providing for a report; providing for funding; 30 providing effective dates. 31 3 4:31 PM 04/26/05 s1872c2c-39-c3g